[Voltaire]. La Henriade, nouvelle édition / 2 Vol. — Paris: [Barbou, pour] la veuve Duchesne [et al.], [1769-]1770.

A two-volume set.

Vol. 1: LA | HENRIADE, | NOUVELLE ÉDITION | A PARIS | [medallion portrait of Voltaire] | Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, | Panckoucke et Nyon, Libraires. ||

Pagination: [2] – engraved title with medallion portrait of Voltaire / blank, [i-iii] iv-xl, [1-3] 4-272, 10 plates and 10 vignettes after Eisen by de Longueil.

Collation: 8vo; a-b⁸ c⁴, A-R⁸

Vol. 2: LA | HENRIADE, | NOUVELLE ÉDITION. | — | SECONDE PARTIE. |— | [Floral device] | A PARIS, | Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, | Panckoucke et Nyon, Libraires. | — | M. DCC. LXX.

Pagination: [1, 2] - t.p. / imprim., 3-316 [4 - table, imprint "De l'Imprimerie de Barbou."]

Collation: A-V⁸.

Binding: full brown calf, raised bands with the gilt floral tools in compartments, red and dark brown labels with gilt lettering: title, author, vol. number, and year; printed on laid paper. Wear, marks and rubbing, endpapers, corners and spine repaired/replaced; leaves are generally clean with the odd mark here or there. With frontispiece, 10 vignettes and 10 plates in vol. 1 as called for.

Size: 19 x 12.5 cm each volume.

Catalogue raisonné.: G. Ray, p. 59; Cohen-de Ricci p. 1026.

LIB-2581-1.2020 and LIB-2581-2.2020.
Illustrated by: Charles Eisen (French, 1720 – 1778)
Engraved by: Joseph de Longueil (French, 1730 – 1792)
Author: François Marie Arouet de Voltaire (French, 1694 – 1778)
Publisher: Veuve Duchesne (Nicolas Bonaventure Duchesne died in 1765)
Printer: Joseph Gérard Barbou (French, 1723 – 1790)